Hello,

anything new to this thread? I would like to do the same for a mass deployment of servers.

Thanks,

Lars

Hi Steve,

I have written an email to adias@vmware.com on Friday. Perhaps we will get an information starting this week.
But have a look at the solution of LucD - seems to solve the problem for me.

LS

Thanks! That's a big help.

One thing I am still having some trouble with is the resource pool for the target guest OS--I'm not using resource pools at all and would like to deploy the target VM directly on the host. How to get a resource pool object given a host name?

Seems like a simple problem but I have been bashing my head against it for a few hours already.

Thanks,

Steve

Hello Stephen,

I ran into the same problem.
Ressourcepool is a property of ComputeResource object.
I don't know how you get the parent object so you can reach COmputeResource object with the Find-EntityViews command

With the following line you can make the link between a host and its resource pool (I only look at the first computeResource / host/ resource pool, you need to add loop to scan for your host!)

$cr=Find-EntityViews computeResource
$computeresource0=$cr[0] #here you get the first computeResource object
$host0_ref=$computeresource0.Host[0] #get the first host referenced
$vmhost_obj=get-view $host0_ref
$vmhost_name= $vmhost_obj.name #here you get your host name, now get the ressource pool
$respool_ref=$computeresource0.ResourcePool #here you get a reference
$respool_obj=Get-View $respool_ref #this is the object you can use with a commandlet

I'm just learning...

Thanks! That did the trick.

The code I finally wound up using is:

$filter = New-Object -TypeName "System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection"
$filter.Add("Name", $Hostname)
$ComputeResource = Find-EntityViews ComputeResource -Filter $filter

$vmclonespec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
$vmclonespec.location = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

$vmclonespec.Location.Pool = $ComputeResource.ResourcePool
$vmclonespec.Location.Host = (Get-View (Get-vmHost $Hostname).id).moref
$vmclonespec.Location.Datastore = (Get-View (Get-Datastore -VMHost (Get-vmHost $Hostname)).id).moref